Download or read book A Dictionary of Symbols written by J. E. Cirlot and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-27 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable reference, this informative and entertaining volume presents a key to elucidating the symbolic worlds encountered in both the arts and the history of ideas. 32 black-and-white illustrations.
Download or read book Diccionario de s mbolos written by Juan Eduardo Cirlot and published by Siruela. This book was released on 1997 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desde los egipcios, la simbología ha sido la gran ciencia de la antigüedad. En Oriente ha perdurado sin interrupción hasta ya entrado el siglo XX y en Occidente inspiró todo el arte medieval y, en gran medida, el renacentista y barroco, hasta que el descubrimiento del «Inconsciente» volvió a recuperar los símbolos en ámbitos y maneras muy distintos. Este Diccionario de símbolos es la versión última y definitiva de la obra en prosa más importante del poeta y crítico de arte Juan Eduardo Cirlot. Publicado por primera vez en 1958 con el título Diccionario de símbolos tradicionales, fue traducido al inglés en 1962. Cirlot continuó elaborando nuevas voces y artículos que introdujo en la segunda edición castellana de 1969 y en la segunda edición inglesa y americana de 1971. En esta edición se han incluido nuevas voces, hasta el momento sólo publicadas en inglés, así como el artículo «Simbolismo fonético», último ámbito del estudio simbológico de Cirlot, recuperado de su publicación en prensa. En el epílogo, Victoria Cirlot sitúa en la vida de su padre la construcción de esta obra siempre en expansión y la relaciona con la poesía y la crítica de arte. También muestra el interés de Cirlot por la simbología a partir de los años cincuenta, cuando conoce en Barcelona al musicólogo y antropólogo Marius Schneider, aportando documentos inéditos, como por ejemplo la carta a André Breton en la que se relata el sueño aludido en la voz «Cicatrices».
Download or read book The POLYNESIAN TATTOO Handbook written by Roberto Gemori and published by TattooTribes. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will give you an insight on Polynesian tattoo motifs. It will help you understand them, their symbolism and their meanings. It will help you find the ideas for your own tattoo and help you creating it. Design creation process explained in detail with case studies - Polynesian Symbols & Motifs - Meanings Quick Reference - Free Designs - Positioning the Elements - Case Studies explained - Maorigrams creation
Download or read book The Mythology of Dance written by Harry Eiss and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lights dim and soon the theatre becomes dark. The audience conversations end with a few softly dissipating whispers, and the movie begins. Nina Sayers, a young ballerina, dances the prologue to Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, a ballet expressing a story drawn from Russian folk tales about a princess who has been turned into a White Swan and can only be turned back if a man swears eternal fidelity to her. However, this is not that ballet. This is the beginning of Black Swan, a controversial movie employing symbolism in a complex interweaving of dance and film to reveal the struggles and paradoxes of everything from a female rite-of-passage to questions about where artistic expression should demand self-sacrifice and whether such sacrifice is worth the price. The dance floor is the stage of life, the place where physical actions take on the symbolic meanings of mythology and express the deepest archetypes of the human mind. This book explores how dance gives shape to those human needs and how it reflects, and even creates, the maps of meaning and value that structure our lives. Though the volume looks at all the forms of dance, it focuses on three main categories in particular: religious, social, and artistic. Since the American Musical and subsequent Musical Videos have both reflected and influenced our current world, they receive the most space—such acclaimed performers as Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Ricky Nelson, Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson, such important composers and lyrists as Gershwin, Rodgers-and-Hammerstein, Porter, Berlin, Webber, Bernstein, the Beatles, and the Who, and such choreographers as Graham, Balanchine, Robbins and Fosse are examined in particular detail.
Download or read book Totalitarianisms The Closed Society and Its Friends A History of Crossed Languages written by Juan Francisco Fuentes and published by Ed. Universidad de Cantabria. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is striking that the main political concept coined by the century of democracy has been totalitarianism. Since its birth in fascist Italy in the 1920s, the term has made a long journey throughout different countries and periods. After representing the fascination for dictatorships during the interwar years, totalitarianism became a key concept of the ‘war of words’ waged between democracy and communism until the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was ‘a hot word for a Cold War’, as termed by the author of this book to convey the importance of this contest of crossed languages, which also included images, symbols and other forms of ‘senso-propaganda’. The Closed Society and Its Friendshighlights the role played by language in the building of a dystopian civilization conceived as an alternative to the open society created by liberalism. The book analyses the dimension of totalitarianisms, from fascism and Nazism to communism, as political religions with some common features, such as the cult of personality and the conception of society as a community of believers. This fascinating essay on the dark side of the 20th century ends with a disturbing epilogue: ‘Is totalitarianism back?’
Download or read book Dictionary of Symbolism written by Hans Biedermann and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedic guide explores the rich and varied meanings of more than 2,000 symbols—from amethyst to Zodiac.
Download or read book Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols written by J. C. Cooper and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1987-03-17 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nearly 1500 entries, many of them strikingly and often surprisingly illustrated, J. C. Cooper has documented the history and evolution of symbols from prehistory to our own day. With over 200 illustrations and lively, informative and often ironic texts, she discusses and explains an enormous variety of symbols extending from the Arctic to Dahomey, from the Iroquois to Oceana, and coming from systems as diverse as Tao, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Tantra, the cult of Cybele and the Great Goddess, the Pre-Columbian religions of the Western Hemisphere and the Voodoo cults of Brazil and West Africa.
Download or read book Dictionary of Symbols written by J. C. Cirlot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unvarying essential meanings of around 1,000 symbols and symbolic themes commonly found in the art, literature and thought of all cultures through the ages are clarified.
Download or read book Symbols written by Carl G. Liungman and published by Ionfox AB. This book was released on 2004 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics. In 1,600 articles their histories, uses, and meanings are thoroughly discussed. The signs range from ideograms carved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men, to hobo signs and subway graffiti.
Download or read book Compendium of Creeds Definitions and Declarations on Matters of Faith and Morals written by Heinrich Denzinger and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compendium of theological-historical source texts, in a bilingual edition, is completely revised and extended to the pontificate of Benedict XVI. With its unique wealth of official church documents and sources, it is an essential resource for theological work. Since its first edition in 1854, Denzinger has become a standard work and an indispensable tool for serious theological work. It faithfully reflects the history of the Church's faith and its development over the centuries. Indeed, its reference system has become an established part of citing important theological sources. Peter Hunermann has updated the texts of this compendium and he has provided each text with an introduction. The original language and the English translation are presented in two columns so readers can refer to the original next, while deepening their understand through the introductions, notes, and reliable English translation. The final section of the volume features indexes, including a detailed systematic index to aid locating texts on specific themes. The revised, expanded edition of Denzinger, with its textcritical editing, is a necessary part of any up-to-date theological library.
Download or read book Dictionnaires written by and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diccionario de simbolos written by Juan Eduardo Cirlot Laporta and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Europe written by Norman Davies and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Ice Age to the Cold War and beyond, from Reykjavik to Riga, from Archimedes to Einstein, Alexander to Yeltsin, here between the covers of a single volume Norman Davies tells the story of Europe, East and West, from prehistory to the present day. The book's absorbing narrative lays down the chronological and geographical grid on which the dramas of European history have been played out. It zooms in from the distant focus of Chapter One, which explores the first five million years of the continent's evolution, to the close focus of the lasttwo chapters, which cover the twentieth century at roughly one page per year. In between, Norman Davies presents a huge and sweeping canvas packed with fascinating detail, analysis, and anecdote. Alongside Europe's better-known stories - human, national, and continental - he brings into focus areasoften ignored or misunderstood, remembering the stateless nation as well as the nation-state. Minority communities, from heretics and lepers to Jews, Romanies, and Muslims have not been forgotten. This masterly history reveals not only the rich variety of Europe's past but also the many and rewarding prisms through which it can be viewed. Each chapter contains a selection of telephoto 'capsules', illustrating narrower themes and topics that cut across the chronological flow. Davies thenconcludes with a wide-angle 'snapshot' of the whole continent as seen from one particular vantage point. The overall effect is stunning: a kind of historical picture album, with panoramic tableaux interspersed by detailed insets and close-ups. Never before has such an ambitious history of Europe been attempted. In range and ambition, the originality of its structure and glittering style, Norman Davies's Europe represents one of the most important and illuminating history books to be published by Oxford. Time Capsules 201 fascinating articles interspersed throughout the narrative focus on incidents or topics as various as The Iceman of the Alps, Erotic Graffiti at Pompeii, Stradivarius, and Psychoanalysing Hitler. Each capsule can be tasted as a separate self-contained morsel; or can be read in conjunction withthe narrative into which it is inserted. Snapshots 12 panoramic overviews across the changing map of Europe freeze the frames of the chronological narrative at moments of symbolic importance, such as Knossos 1628 BC, Constantinople AD 330, and Nuremberg 1945. A fully illustrated history Incorporates over 100 superbly detailed maps and diagrams, and 32 pages of black and white plates.
Download or read book The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols written by Jean Chevalier and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a remarkable dictionary, exploring the vast and various symbols which abound in literature, religion, national identity and are found at the very heart of our dreams and sub-conscious. Compiled by an international team of experts, each entry is given its complete range of interpretations - sexual and spiritual, official and subversive, cultural and religious - to bring meaning and insight to the symbol.
Download or read book Diccionario de s mbolos written by Hans Biedermann and published by Grupo Planeta (GBS). This book was released on 1993 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Con más de 2000 entradas y 600 ilustraciones, el presente diccionario es una obra de consulta básica que interpreta para el lector la gran multiplicidad de significados culturales que nos guían en nuestra actividad cotidiana. Desde la curz y la rosa roja hasta el anillo de boda y las velas en la mesa, Biedermann se pregunta de dónde proviene la fuerza emocional de todas estas cosas y -sobre una amplia base arqueológica, etnológica, artística y psicológica- acaba proponiendo un fascinante viaje por todas las culturas, civilizaciones, religiones y sectas. Egipto, Mesopotamia, India, China, Japón, México, Perú o el Mediterráneo...: una variada pluralidad de universos que introducirán al lector tanto en los símbolos del cristianismo primitivo y medieval, como en las raíces de los motivos más modernos que hallan su expresión en mitos, cuentos y leyendas. La obras, así, obliga a y a saltar de una voz a otra, desvelando poco a poco los paisajes más recónditos del saber y la conciencia arquetípicos.
Download or read book Diccionario de s mbolos written by Juan-Eduardo Cirlot and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Picasso Birth of a Genius written by Juan Eduardo Cirlot and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
